Southern California Airports Impacted For Short Time
Friday

If you were trying to get away for the Memorial Day Weekend from
or to any of 21 Southern California airports Friday, an hour-long
disruption at a San Diego-based radar center may have had you
squirming in your seat for a half hour or more.

"Important Step To Guarantee Future Of The Group"

A restructuring program of EADS' Airbus unit, Power 8, must not
be called into question, a German government spokesman said after a
German magazine reported France wanted to alter the plan, reported
Reuters.

Agency Gives "Stamp Of Approval" For Relocation To West
Bay

On Friday the FAA awarded a $72 million federal Airport
Improvement Program grant, and the lucky winner was -- the Panama
City-Bay Count International Airport, FL, allowing it to move
forward with its relocation to West Bay, reported the News
Herald.

NASA Embarrassment Continues

Ah, to be an employee of NASA these days. Despite delays, the
next space shuttle flight is poised to blast off next month... the
agency has had tremendous success with its unmanned space
programs... oh, and then there's that darn love triangle thing,
that they'd be more than happy to forget.

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Ontario Institution Sees Good Things In The Future

While efforts by Ontario's Sault College to partner with a
Chinese aviation school remain in a holding pattern after a
six-member delegation from Guangzhou Civil Aviation College toured
Sault College's aviation hangar Thursday, the visit was
positive.

20 On Board When Twin Otter Went Down Thursday

Officials say that eight people on board a government flight
survived the crash of a De Havilland Twin Otter in Peru's
northeastern jungle in a rainstorm Thursday, plowing into dense
jungle an hour after take off, reported News24.

Looking to Take Back Foreign Capacity

Imagine, for a moment, you operate a national airline. It's
unsetting to look around -- in your own country -- and see how
aggressively foreign carriers, are expanding cargo capacities,
taking full advantage of your country's export boom.

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"We were installing new maps in the radar system and
something went wrong and all of them suddenly disappeared from the
radar screens. Controllers could still see the aircraft and could
still talk to the aircraft, but they couldn't see the
maps."

Source: FAA spokesman Ian Gregor. The computer
mapping system used by the SoCal TRACON failed for about an hour
early Friday, when staff attempted to update the system's map
software.